Repository: commons-text
Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/master 802258f63 -> 97d606405


Add optimization to limited levenshtein distance


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Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-text/commit/6b85ebeb
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Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: 6b85ebeb0bb999d3dc158c4afb0f8ae4c6eeacac
Parents: 6ad5771
Author: Luciano Quintabani <lquintab...@medallia.com>
Authored: Sun Jul 15 17:10:51 2018 -0300
Committer: Luciano Quintabani <lquintab...@medallia.com>
Committed: Sun Jul 15 17:10:51 2018 -0300

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 .../org/apache/commons/text/similarity/LevenshteinDistance.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-text/blob/6b85ebeb/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity/LevenshteinDistance.java
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diff --git 
a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity/LevenshteinDistance.java 
b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity/LevenshteinDistance.java
index 68c13cb..f0f2874 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity/LevenshteinDistance.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity/LevenshteinDistance.java
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@ public class LevenshteinDistance implements 
EditDistance<Integer> {
             m = right.length();
         }
 
+        // the edit distance cannot be less than the length difference
+        if (m - n > threshold) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+
         int[] p = new int[n + 1]; // 'previous' cost array, horizontally
         int[] d = new int[n + 1]; // cost array, horizontally
         int[] tempD; // placeholder to assist in swapping p and d

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